Adjustable garment-form.



I; LEVIN.

ADJUSTABLE GARMENT FORM.

APPLICATION FILED 1100.8, 1912.

Patented Apr. 29, 1913.

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ADJUSTABLE GARMENT FORM.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. s, 1912.

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ISAAC LEVIN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

.ADJUSTABLE GARMENT-FORM.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 29, 1913.

Application filed August 8, 1912. Serial No. 713,971.

To all fr/wm 25 may concern.'

Be it known that I, IsAAo LEVIN, a citizen j illustrated and describedin a patent issued to me on the 23rd day of August, 1910, and bearingthe Patent Number 968,169. My improved skirt portion can, however, beused in connection with the ordinary bust form.

To carry out the object of my invention,`

I form the skirt portion out of flat, and preferably spring metal,strips which will twist as the skirt portion is folded. To render theskirt portion adjustable, that is to say capable of being increased ordecreased in diameter, I make up the said skirt portion out of aplurality of sections which can be slid one upon the other, in orderthat the diameter of the skirt portion can be changed. By virtue of themanner which I employ to slidably connect the sections, the said skirtportion can be adjusted at the top or bottom thereof independently ofeach other. Y

I will now proceed to describe my inven tion in detail, the novelfeatures of which I will finally point out in the claims, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, forming part hereof, wherein:

Figure 1 is a front elevation of a bust form having applied thereto myimproved skirt portion; Fig. 2 isa top plan view of the skirt portionalone; Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail view, broken away, showing one ofthe sections which go to make up the skirt portion; Fig. 4 is anenlarged sectional plan view, the section being taken on a line 4 4 inFig. 1; Fig. 5 is a detail view illustrating the skirt portion asadjusted to increase the diameter at the bottom thereof; Fig. 6 is anenlarged verticalsectional view, the section being taken on a line 6-6in Fig. 2, illustrating the manner of slidably securing thev `sectionstogether, ya plate for securing the skirt portion to the bust portionbeing also,

shown; Fig. 7 is a detail view illustrating the skirt portion as folded;and Fig. 8 illustrates a modified form of plate for supporting the skirtportion.

Referringv to Fig. 1, the numeral 1 indicates an adjustable bustportion, which is set forth in the above-referred to patent, comprisingthe sections 2, 3, and 4, which sections are adjustably connected by atoggle joint 5. The object of the adjustable bust form is to providesuch.a device which is capable of having its bust, hip, or waistdimensions changed. In said Fig. 1 my improved skirt portion isindicated by the numeral 6 and consists of the band members 7 8, 9 and10, which in turn have pivotally connected thereto vertical strips 11,which are made out of flat resilient metal as are the band membersreferred to. The strips 11 are pivotally secured to said band members byeyelets or rivets 12. As can be seen in Fig. 2, the skirt portion 6 ismade up of a plurality of sections 18, 14, 15 and 16 secured together at17, and as can be seen in Fig. 3, each band member 7 8, 9 and 10 isprovided adjacent each end thereof with a slot 18. To complete the form`I join, by a slidable connection, the sections 13, 14, l5 and 16 asshown. The means which I employ to join the said sections consists ofauxiliary strips 11EL similar to the strips 11. To j o-in the sectionsthe slotted ends of the band members are placed together, as shown inFig. 4. I then pass a rivet or eyelet 12fL through the strips 11a andslots 18 in the band members, employing washers 19 (Fig. 2) for certainof said rivets or eyelets, and slotted plates v2O for the remainingrivets or eyelets in the to-p band. The rivets or eyelets 12a in theremaining band members are backed by washers only. The rivets 12 and12a`are not upset enough to bind the band members and strips tightly butjust enough to produce a firm pivotal connection. The slotted platesmovably secure the skirt portion to the bust form as shown in Fig. 1. Aseach plate 20 is slidably held to the form 1 by rivets or screws 21which pass through the slots 22, and as each of the said plates ispivotally secured to its band member, it is quite apparent that theskirt portion 6 can be moved upwardly on the form, to the eX- tent ofthe slots 20, in order that the skirt portion, when folded, as shown inFig. 7 can be slid or moved over the lower end of to slightly flattenthe bands at the joints 17 ,j

as indicated by dotted lines 23 (Fig. 2), in order to remove the bindingeffect produced at this point by the pressure of the resiliency of thebands. After the joint 17 has been flattened, the sections can be drawnapart or moved together. Each joint 17 is treated iny this manner. Afterhaving adjusted the sections, one upon the ot-her, the joints areallowed to assume their curved position.

The sections will remain in an adjusted position by reason of thepressure of the sections, one upon the other, at the joints 17. The

resiliency of the material supplies the pres-- sure. rlhe bottom of theskirtportion can be adjusted, independently of the top thereof, in theabove described manner (see Fig. 5).

It will be apparent from the foregoing description that my skirt formcomprises sections which are slidably connected and that each section ismade up of yieldable elements pivotally secured together.

To render the skirt portion easily dis; mountable I provide the plates20` with openings 24 which are larger in diameter than the heads of thescrews or rivets 21, the said openings 24 being in communication withthe slots in the plate. To remove the skirt portion from the bustportion, I simply move the skirt portion upwardly until the heads ofthe-'rivets aline with the openings 24, at which .time the plates may bemoved outwardly and over the said heads.

To brace the lower end of the skirt portion, I preferably employ braces25, which consist of the slidably connected members 27 and 28 (see Fig.2). 'Ihe inner end of each of the braces is pivotally connected to arotatable plate 29, which in turn is car` ried by the block 30 carriedby the supporting post 31. The outer end of each of the braces iscarried by the lower band member of the skirt port-ion. Should the bustform be tilted forward on its support, the braces 25 may be adjusted tohold the skirt portion in the proper position relative to the inclinedbust portion. The braces preferably extend from the front of the skirtportion to the plate 29.

In Fig. 8, which illustrates another form of supporting plate for theskirt portion, I employ a pivotal guard 32, which, when moved to thedotted line position, prevents the removal of the skirt portion, butwhen moved to the full line position permits the skirt portion to bemoved .upY untillthe heads of the rivets 21 reach the openings 24, at

which time the skirt portion can be removed from the bust form.

By referring to Fig. 2 it will be seen that I have provided between theslidable brace members 27 and 28 a small slidable plate 33, which, whenmoved toward either of the points of securement of the brace members,will tend to force said members apart, thus binding them against thepoints of securement and constituting a lock to hold the braces inadj-usted positions.

Having now described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure byLetter-s Patent is: l

1. A skirt portion comprising a plurality of sections, each sectioncomprising a plurality of resilient band members adapted to lap one overthe other, provided at the ends thereof with slots, a plurality ofvertically disposed resilient strips pivotally connected to said bandmembers, intermediate the said slots, a plurality of vertically disposedauxiliary strips located at the overlapping slotted ends of said bandmembers, and securing means connecting said last named strips to saidband members, said securing means passing through said slots.

2. A skirt portion comprising a plurality of sections, each sectioncomprising a plurality of resilient band members adapted to lap one overthe other and provided with slots at the ends thereof, a plurality ofvertically disposed resilient strips, pivotally secured to saidresilient band members, intermediate the said slots, slotted platespivotally secured to upper band member intermediate the slotted endsthereof, a plurality of vertically disposed auxiliary resilient stripmembers, located at the overlapping slotted ends of said resilient bandmembers, securing means connecting said last named resilient strips to.said resilient band members, said securing means passing through saidslots and a slotted plate located at each joint of said resilient bandmembers, said plate being secured by the securing means of one of saidauxiliary resilient strip members.

3. A skirt-form, comprising a plurality of movably connected sect-ions,each section consisting of a plurality of horizontally disposedbandmembers, the corresponding band-members of each section overlappingand being slidably connected to each other at the ends thereof, wherebysaid band-members can be adjusted to change the circumferentialdimensions of the skirt-form, and vertical members pivotally connectedto said band members, whereby the lower bandmember can be partiallyrotated to twist and collapse the vertical members into helicalformation and draw the band-members together in any adjusted position.

4. In combination with a sectional adjustable bust-form, a Vskirtportion yco1 1si s t F ing of a plurality of adjustably connectedsections, each comprised of horizontal bandmembers and vertical memberspivoted thereto, independent slotted plates pivoted to saidskirt-portion and connecting the skirtportion and bust-form together,and connecting means carried by each section of said bust-form, theconnecting means engaging the slots in said pivoted plates, the pivotalconnection for said plates being also the upper pivotal connection for aVertical member. l 5. A skirt portion comprising a plurality ofsections, each section comprisinga plurality of resilient band membersadapted to lap one over the other and provided at the ends thereof withslots, a plurality of vertically disposed resilient strips pivotallyconnected to said band members, intermediate the said slots, means toslidably secure the overlapping ends of the band-members together, andmeans to shiftably secure the upper end of the skirt-portion to thelower end of a bust-portion.

6. In combination with a sectional adjustable bust-portion, askirt-portion comprising a plurality of resilient band-members adapt--ed to lap at their ends over-each other, means to slidably secure theoverlapping ends of the band members together, a plurality of verticallydisposed resilient strips pivotally connected to said band-members, andmeans to shiftably secure the upper end of the skirt portion to thebust-portion.

Signed at New York city, N. Y., this 6th day of August 1912.

ISAAC LEVIN.

Vitnesses EDWARD A. Jem/is, ESTELLE O. HAMBURGER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ive cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C.

